While we were out...

After a nice, long Labor Day weekend Reliable Source is back and will resume publication tomorrow morning. Until then, here's a few highlights from today's Names & Faces column:

-Joe McGinniss--who rankled Tea Party-types by moving in next-door to Sarah Palin's home in Wasilla, Alaska, while conducting research for a book about her--is heading home to Massachusetts.

-A judge in the Bahamas has dismissed charges against two people accused of extorting money from John Travolta over the death of his 16-year-old son, Jett.

-Model and former Mick Jagger-fling Jerry Hall plans to auction some of her art collection next month, including a famous portrait by Lucian Freud that shows her nude when she was eight months pregnant.